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Tag Archives: Awe
POEM: Getting Off
This poem is meditation and commentary on the all-too-common chasm between legality and morality. Personally, I get off on morality, not legality… Getting Off Getting off On a technicality Beating off Their own rules Hardly A consummate victory Knot So … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Meditation, Moral, Morality, Rules
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POEM: The Largesse He Could Conceive
Throughout human history, people have travelled great journeys seeking their fortune or fare share of fame. Modern families often spread out out across the country following jobs and careers, and the proverbial better life. These things all have there place, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Family, God, History, Jobs, Life, Modern
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POEM: The Hypocrites Oath
This poem is a parody of the “Hippocratic Oath,” an early version of medical ethics best known for its precept of “do no harm.” Of course, American health care is a minefield of doing harm, adept at both undertreatment and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Ethics, Health Care, Patience, Prevention
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POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247
Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Awe, Life, Nature, Work
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POEM: Flame In The Darkness
Hope springs eternal. That’s just, the way it glows. Flame In The Darkness There is a flame In the darkness Awe weighs more Than mirror fact This flame is both Before and after See change As one Better Than book … Continue reading
POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Future, Nature, Nonviolence, Poor, Reality, Sacred, Success, Violence, War
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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)
Occam’s Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. This funny and tragic poem is a parody of the misuse of the principle of Occam’s Razor to over-simplify and round … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Fundamentalism, Funny, Gödel, Humility, Ideology, Life, Luck, Possibility, Reality, State, Zero Tolerance
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POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
This poem is a metaphor for the natural consequences of bulling through natural limits on planet earth, our one home. This poem is yet another existential plea for ledged humanity to step away from the cliff. This poem poses the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Existential, Greed, Heaven, Humanity, Love, Money, Titanic
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POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
One of the cutting edges of AI, artificial intelligence, is large language models that can veraciously consume massive amounts of writing in short order — more info than thousands of humans in a lifetime. However impressive this might be, my … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Awe, Humanity, Idioms, Ode, Prose, Relationships, Shakespeare
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POEM: Making Know Deference
This poem is about what may be the biggest con to which we are subject: that what you do doesn’t make any difference. I see this as a cynical project by those in power to entrench and secure a status … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Change, Children, Cynical, God, Hope, Power, Status, Status Quo, Truth
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POEM: A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond
This poem plays with the metaphor of the many ripples of life set in motion by epic forces that set up an existential dance with the universe… A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond In mist of the universe Plunges … Continue reading
POEM: The Ark of History
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “the arc of history bends toward justice.” I share this hope, and plan to add my share of acts and just living. May we all join in blessed solidarity and work to tell history … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, History, Hope, Justice, Loss, Solidarity, Suffering, Work
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POEM: Having Landed, Hear
This poem is about the Great Unwashed rising up and sailing into anew world. Having Landed, Hear In such a manor You wanted A place at the table Fore awe that Know longer On the menu Unendingly apprehended On top … Continue reading
POEM: True Believer
When it comes down to it, I am a true believer, a true romantic, an unrepentant idealist. This is only made more known to me when I stray and return home. True Believer You just May see it in My … Continue reading
POEM: Just Us for Sum
This poem is a bout the long journey to recognizing that we are all in the same boat, weather that be an ark or the Titanic. Just Us for Sum Won group over an other Taking Into account Their own … Continue reading
POEM: Fallen, For It
This poem is an ode to hubris, perhaps the greatest enemy to our collective lives. The largest hubris of all is leaning into hubris as a character asset. The Tower of Babel will fall, as well as every version of … Continue reading
POEM: Self-fulfilling Prophets
This poem offers two visions of self-fulfilling prophets, one self-serving and destructive and the other building a humane community together. This poem is yet another version of my meditations on “means” and “ends.” Self-fulfilling Prophets Their whirled view Is punishing … Continue reading
POEM: Divine Die-alogue
This poem plays with notion of God sitting next to me my whole life, and that presence involves no literal speaking. Then, upon my death God turns to me… Divine Die-alogue I am Dumb to talk about it Such profound … Continue reading
POEM: Calling Awe Siblings
Awe those who stand in awesome awe are my siblings. This poem is a call for awe of us to join together as one family. Calling Awe Siblings There is family Close as kin And stronger than blood Knits beyond … Continue reading
POEM: A Singular Err, Over, And Over
This short poem plays with the notion that merely existing is an awesome win, and being a grump after this singular win is a singular err. A Singular Err, Over, And Over In spite Of halving one The existence lottery … Continue reading